Cricket World Cup has been around since 1912 when the first attempt was made to organize a triangular tournament between South Africa, Australia and England. Since 1975, the Cricket World Cup matches have regularly been held every 4 years. Over the years, quite a lot notable records have been established by the players from around the world. Indian master blaster Sachin Tendulkar is known to have created many records at the World Cup, while Australian pacer Glenn McGrath rules the bowling charts. There are others also who have dominated the topmost position in various other statistics. 
The maximum runs scored by any team was achieved in 2007 when India was playing against Bermuda and clinched 413 runs for a loss of 5 wickets. The same match also witnessed the most number of sixes in a match, 18. The lowest ever score was a mere 36 runs by Canada when they were playing Sri Lanka in 2003. The most number of runs chased by any team stands at 313 runs and is achieved by Sri Lanka when they were up against Zimbabwe in 1992. In 2007 when India went into a match against Bermuda, they won by a margin of 257 runs which stands as the highest margin with which a team has ever won in World Cup. Similarly, in 1987, Australia won against India with the lowest ever margin of 1 run. The same series saw Australia face England for the finals and won by 7 runs which is recorded as the least ever margin win in a World Cup final match. 
Australia is currently holding the highest win percentage amongst all the teams ever participating at the World Cup with a win percentage of 74.63%, closely followed by England with 65.0%. Likewise, Australia has had the biggest share of victories at the World Cup matches with 51 wins. The team following Australia at this statistics is Sri Lanka lagging behind by 15, at 36 wins. Zimbabwe had faced the most number of losses at the World Cup with 33 with Sri Lanka closely following at 30.
Three World Cup matches have ended up in a tie, once in 1999 between South Africa and Australia, the second one between Sri Lanka and South Africa in 2003 and the third one between Kingston and Zimbabwe in 2007. The highest win percentage for a tournament is recorded by Australia with a 100% at the 2007 World Cup where the team went undefeated throughout the entire series. The same feat was achieved by Sri Lanka at the 1996 World Cup and Australia again in the 2003 World Cup. Australia has yet won the maximum of 4 World Cup titles amongst all teams.
Currently Australia is on a winning streak at the World Cup with 23 consecutive wins with 29 consecutive games without facing a loss. No other team is even close to Australia at this record with West Indies following them at 9 wins for both. The youngest player to have played a World Cup match is Talha Jubair, aged 17 years and the oldest one is Nolan Clarke at 47 years. Ricky Ponting is the most successful captain ever with 22 wins yet.